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Smoke screen tested in United States.
A U.S. military truck with smoke screen mechanism doing tests in the United States during World War 2. Men on a tower find out the direction of the wind with a balloon. A wind wane also indicates the wind direction. A man turns on a button to lay the smoke screen. Smoke rises and engulfs the area in a blanket of smoke capable of covering military installations and operations with protective camouflage so it can not be seen by enemy aircraft.
Role played by women in United States during World War II.
'No Exceptions' A dramatization shows a soldier writing a letter to his mother back home in United States during World War II. He writes about the day's fighting and how the soldiers fought bravely. He also acknowledges the role played by women in the war efforts. Women serve the community as nurses, looking after children, managing their homes and knitting sweaters. A woman runs a canteen.
World War II film intended to encourage American civilians (especially women) to participate in the home front war efforts.
Mix of actual World War 2 footage scenes outside the United States, and dramatized war scenes inside the U.S. Narrator speaks as a U.S. soldier writes a letter to his mother at home, in which he contrasts the hardships of war torn countries and peoples with the relative safety and lack of suffering of the U.S. population during World War 2. Opening scene shows typical American women riding in a bus. One woman, ostensibly the soldier's mother, climbs aboard a bus as another woman steps out of it. A woman visits a friend who says she had to give up her Red Cross work because it didn't leave her time to get her hair done each week. A group of women at a garden party bridge club. Narrator says one of them could not work at a USO canteen because it conflicted with her bridge party. A woman lounging in a garden chair, is claimed to avoid a war job because they are all boring and dirty. A maid serves some hard to obtain foods to two woman at lunch. The hostess accused of obtaining them on the black market. The scene shifts to the letter writing son serving with the army in Europe. He relates taking a village recently, and the film shows residents cheering as the American soldiers occupy it. Fire fighters direct streams of water on burning wrecked buildings. Refugees fleeing their homes. Several nuns helping some as they evacuate. shells striking as refugees travel. Populations fleeing and refugee citizens leaving as invading forces come, in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France and France. View of people running for shelter in China. At this point, the film shows the chaos in those countries superimposed on America, where fires are being fought, and ambulances respond to help injured. A woman picks up her child as she and others run, looking skyward with dread. Air raid sirens sound in the background. A British soldier looks over a scene where Asian people are evacuating from war torn homes. A group of despairing European people. The film creates an imaginary image of and ordinary American woman digging through the rubble of her destroyed home. American women lined up, in front of bomb damaged buildings, to receive one egg a month. Other American civilians lined up to receive a ration of potatoes. Women in England are seen shoveling rubble from the remains of their homes after a blitz bombing by the German Luftwaffe. In Russia many women are seen digging and performing manual labor which the narrator says is labor forced by invading forces (possible slave labor forced by Nazi German forces). Women in Greece clearing rubble. Again, film creates imaginary view of Americans clearing rubble from their destroyed houses and evacuating en masse. Two American women comforting another in front of her burning home. More views of Americans in mass evacuation, carrying their belonging with them. Narrator states children are evacuated first and them film shows scenes of English children being sent to safety on buses. View of Russians evacuating in horse-drawn carts. Imaginary transition to Americans evacuating known local places. Chinese evacuating across a bridge, assisted by British soldiers. More imaginary scenes of Americans evacuating. A soldier writing a letter and then packing up his gear to move on with members of his army unit. They line up in formation and then march. Imaginary view of American women marching side by side with them. Glimpse of large formation of uniformed nurses marching. Last scene is of American flag superimposed on marchers.
Women test guns, tanks and other war equipment at Aberdeen Proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland during World War II.
'Women at war' Women test tanks at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland. Women manufacture war equipment like shells at a war plant. They pile up shells. Machine guns and rifles fired by women during a test. A 19mm anti aircraft gun tested at the proving grounds. A woman drives a tractor and women work on a tank.
Bread for soldiers made at a mobile bakery in United States during World War II.
'Bread for the front' A truck carrying a mobile bakery parked in a forest and men arrange the bakery. A man weighs the ingredients to be use for making bread like salt, sugar and flour. The mixture put in a container that mixes the ingredients thoroughly. The dough is taken out from the mixer and weighed. Dough put onto cooking bars. Loafs of bread are baked in an oven and then cooled in open air. Bread piled up in boxes and transported to war front. Soldiers eat bread at the front.
Navy diver gets to the bottom of the sea surface in United States.
United States Navy divers undergo training. A Navy diver wearing a diving mask climbs down a ladder underwater and descends along a rope to the bottom.
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